tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60020803744635509522024-03-14T04:33:06.042-07:00locabibere: local drinker & Locavore: local eaterFrom late 2020, I have been living in Tasmania, central north coast. I lived in Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia, 2008-2020: Zones: Northern Rivers, Norther Slopes, Granite Belt (Qld), + Canberra wines (when I stayed there) + what I bought locally. I lived in Adelaide for over 20 years. I grew up in NSW. Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-76914754307148548582024-02-10T23:11:00.000-08:002024-02-10T23:11:39.565-08:00Small Wonder Riesling<p> Though I love the Small Wonder Rose, the Riesling was not great. Much too sharp perhaps, no depth. Tamar Valley. </p>Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-8481275104667225272024-02-10T23:06:00.000-08:002024-02-10T23:06:31.907-08:00Nocton Estate Chardonnay<p> Coal River Valley, Southern Tasmania. The Chardy is perhaps too lemony for my taste. But Nocton is the first to make a Chenin Blanc in Tasmania. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYccAh30Ip1F4-GutATLSVvyr9MLkpcXsNiXJv2vySQ5h_Wa_u2E0BUgAkzKrCPb_LhTiy2teyt_BfeAHUIrAIHonj3nNNQFKXz8j62vekOE5bAA5CB3in9eKHfmStCcvaXMus7PDB7jYirMCRSSv-xXFbBnDDX__cGUBoBANyIvUsFZoBq2jXFxBBSsc/s2560/Nocton_Estate-Chardonnay-scaled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1630" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYccAh30Ip1F4-GutATLSVvyr9MLkpcXsNiXJv2vySQ5h_Wa_u2E0BUgAkzKrCPb_LhTiy2teyt_BfeAHUIrAIHonj3nNNQFKXz8j62vekOE5bAA5CB3in9eKHfmStCcvaXMus7PDB7jYirMCRSSv-xXFbBnDDX__cGUBoBANyIvUsFZoBq2jXFxBBSsc/s320/Nocton_Estate-Chardonnay-scaled.jpg" width="204" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-44149700580862710592024-02-10T22:58:00.000-08:002024-02-10T22:58:53.391-08:00Devil's Corner 2022 Riesling<p> Surprisingly good, given I am used to Clare Valley Riesling., and given that Devil's Corner can be run-of-the-mill. </p>Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-52750999871280261172024-02-10T22:56:00.000-08:002024-02-10T22:56:23.977-08:00Strelley Farm Estate NV Rose<p> A very peachy sparkling in perfume and on the palate and in its colour. Coal River Valley near Cambridge. A blend of selected vintages: hence no year on the bottle. Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. https://www.fogarty.wine/products/strelley-farm-nv-sparkling-rose </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-gfWjKtYXokBup0pavT7Kwz_8_Roq8J2fsIOIfEUb27fV7ot9Kacp5ZMlErKi6TRg75-1HkWZ9nHQEbLkMlZArKlQFVwEMI9NvdHGmBDqi_Wj_B6I2YvYn9p5N9IwvUMMgEVIdvf9PHTyo_MxZDja8VyVEvn6i-JeJpgWI0EkZ8p-Uq4yI3D9TK8FBEY/s1061/StFramSparklingRose_720x.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1061" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-gfWjKtYXokBup0pavT7Kwz_8_Roq8J2fsIOIfEUb27fV7ot9Kacp5ZMlErKi6TRg75-1HkWZ9nHQEbLkMlZArKlQFVwEMI9NvdHGmBDqi_Wj_B6I2YvYn9p5N9IwvUMMgEVIdvf9PHTyo_MxZDja8VyVEvn6i-JeJpgWI0EkZ8p-Uq4yI3D9TK8FBEY/s320/StFramSparklingRose_720x.webp" width="217" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-10438265383401814392023-09-15T20:03:00.000-07:002023-09-15T20:03:08.769-07:00Meander Valley Wines<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Meander
Valley Wines<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Driving
into Meander, the township, I understood why the father of proprietor of Cedar
Cottage Meander, Sarah Williams, believed he had discovered paradise in 1976.
The valley is a floor of green fields hugged by the Great Western Tiers
descending like wide, graded steps across the horizon, below a soft mid-blue
sky. Sarah, too, understands that the valley is a beautiful place. She grew up
there, so her roots are in the soil. Meander has a sense of serenity, breathing
space<span style="background: white; color: black;">—and </span>magic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Meander Valley itself is </span><span style="color: #040c28; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">3,821 sq km</span><span style="background: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> in
extent, from urban areas of Launceston to world heritage areas of wilderness. It’s
above the heart of Tasmania, extending into the north where the Meander Valley
LGA ends and Latrobe LGA begins. The Pallittorre and Punnilerpanner peoples are
the Indigenous owners. Within the two LGAs are the</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> ‘short walks capital’ of northern Tasmania, a Tasting
Trail, and, because of its milk- and dark-chocolate soil, the food bowl of
Tasmania: dairy, truffles, land-farmed salmon, molluscs, crustaceans, fish,
beef, lamb, vegetables, fruit—and grape vines. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Tasmanian is in the South-Eastern-Australia wine
zone, and, as a whole, is a region, while within it are sub-regions which the
North-West is. Thus says the Meander Valley Wines’ website says: ‘Tasmanian
wines are all about sub-region and micro-climate’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://meandervalleyvineyard.com.au/" target="_blank">Meander Valley Wines</a> (Red Hills) is a 16-minute
drive from Meander township. All of its wine bottles have luminescent-yellow tops,
much like the current revival of 1970’s psychedelic fashion. Its distinctive,
minimalist labels, with vertical text, <i>sans</i> image, and empathetic or
affecting colours—musk pink for Sparkling Rose, pale mauve for Pinot Noir and
teal for Pinot Gris—make the wine easy to recognise amid a discordancy of
bottles on crowded bottle-shop and wine-bar shelves. That neon-bright yellow of
the bottle tops is picked up in lettering: the A in Meander and V in Valley and
Vineyard (a smart choice, since the consonant A is among the strong sounds in those
words). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://meandervalleyvineyard.com.au/product/sparkling-rose/" target="_blank">The Sparkling Rosé</a> is a surprising combination of
Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Its colour is a tenderly beautiful ballet-slipper
pink, reminding me of my alma mater, the University of Sydney’s Library with
its copper- or bronze-clad wall/s tinged pink from exposure/age. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Sparkling is very dry, but still has body and
complexity, with a passing whisper of strawberry sweetness as you drink it down.
The aroma is salmon and musk. Recommended for discerning sparkling drinkers: this
is one of Tasmania’s best; it sits in a well-judged balance of elegance and sophisticated
pleasure. I was shifted to the memory of being in my local, childhood grocery
shop with its glass-box lolly counter full of toffee umbrellas, musk sticks and
the pink among liquorice allsorts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="https://meandervalleyvineyard.com.au/product/2022-pinot-gris/" target="_blank">The Pinot Gris</a> is silver-yellow
in colour with a ballet-pink undertone. The perfume is as if you were smelling cool,
flat satin. The palate is reminiscent of a light Semillon, which I always think
of as an adult grape, taking some seniority of experience to understand and appreciate.
Some bitter orange, some passionfruit. Not lush, but neither is it severe. It’s
like playing a game that demands some brain power but also engages, like Monopoly
perhaps. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://meandervalleyvineyard.com.au/product/2022-pinot-noir/" target="_blank">ThePinot Noir</a>, in colour, is a clear, light ruby-red like a jewel, typical of
Pinot Noir, and one of the most enticing attributes of this grape. Who could
not admire, who would not love this come-hither colour? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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being opened for some time, the wine develops a pepper in its perfume much like
a Barossa Shiraz. The palate says ‘young’, but there’s something solid about
this Pinot too, like learning your times-tables with a love of symmetry and
pattern. So maybe not luscious, but as with lines, so acceptable. It’s like organic
cotton, or even muslin at a stretch. Ultimately it reminds me of a sandy beach.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-8517221361765951062019-06-18T23:02:00.001-07:002020-11-04T14:21:16.405-08:002016 Finca Olivardots Groc d'amfora from Grey and White Grenache and MacaeboHas the milky smell of …. Arneis and Grenache Blanc, open-mouthed and air-filled. Clear, pale gold ordeep gold in colour. Long palate, which says, again, open, open, yet cloud-filled perhaps. Not the bestest of best Grenache Blanc I have tried, but that grape is undercut by the addition of the Macaebo. <br />
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Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-59666441546984214762019-06-16T20:16:00.003-07:002020-11-04T14:22:20.626-08:00Bodegas Nodus Blanco Joven Ecologico En La ParraThis wine, a surprising combination of Chardonnay and Moscatel, is a lovely clear gold in colour, with the barest hint of pink. It has a musky, pineapple perfume, perhaps peanutty too. (No, no sweetness, unless very far away, from the Muscat.) A smooth, delightful palate with welcoming length of summer-cooling 'riverness' and a repetition of perhaps tart: pineapple, and a pine song added. A terrific summer wine … for … definitely fish: white bait, sardines? A gorgeous label features inviting award icons: birds, butterflies, a floral-headed 1930s-40's black-and-white Hollywood siren on an pale-teal blue label with red and yellow highlights. <br />
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I bought it from Aldi's Lismore store! (Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia)<br />
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Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-51718029947895309092019-05-26T17:13:00.000-07:002019-05-26T17:14:00.760-07:002017 Solechiaro Tenuta Roccaccia Vermentino, Bellwether Heathcote Vermentino <br />
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Roccaccia Vermentino is like a very traditional Sav Blanc in perfume: a cat
shifting past a garden of mint. It is a lovely lemon-gold in colour. The palate
is full and lengthy but it reminds me of cat's fur. With pepper. And later,
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Do try the Bellwether Heathcote Vermentino when it is available again in
town. Bellwether is associated with Chalmers who also make a Vermentino. As I
said in the June CC, the Heathcote Vermentino has elegance and formality, a
nut-based perfume, and a lengthy, smooth and silky palate with a citrus
feature. Vermentino, if you are unfamiliar with it, is close to a wooded
Chardy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-21546850743946857792019-05-26T17:10:00.001-07:002019-05-26T17:10:53.181-07:002016 Range Life Garganega, 2017 Corte Caristar Soave
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pear and lemon. It’s intriguing on the palate which is sure to keep you
interested because I found it practically undefinable but perhaps garnering
your attention precisely because of this. If anything, the palate is something
like the sea and a long summer. The Range Life website says the company grows
Italian grape varieties: ‘hard to pronounce but … easy to drink’. Go to the web
and here a range of pronunciations for Garganega. Range Life describe Garganega
as being between ‘Pinot Grigio and Chardonnay with flavours of creamy lemon
curd, fresh green herbs and zesty citrus’. Would I say that? I don’t know that
I’d compare it to Chardonnay, rather Vermentino at a pinch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2017 Corte Caristar Soave is terrific. Cheaper and better. Bright, deep gold
in colour, it is genuinely lemon curdish in it perfume, and, on the palate, it
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bestest white grapes, barring Arneis, Grenache Blanc and Pinot Blanc. The 2017
Brash Higgins (American, Brad Hickey) South Australian McLaren Vale and
Riverland Derailer smells of lemon, or soft bed linen, or a hot and salty sea. The
palate is short and sharp, with citrus again. Could go well with pesto pasta, beer-battered
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Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-65328747807764895072019-05-26T16:37:00.002-07:002019-05-26T16:37:36.529-07:00Torres Vina Sol De Casta, Gerard Bertrand Côte des Roses, Coté Mas Sud de France
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happy to say that one shop in the region where I live still has the Torres Vina Sol De Casta
Rose (2016) which is very drinkdownable. Equally, a Grenache Blanc is very hard
to find probably anywhere in Oz, let alone the Northern Rivers. There is the
fab Gerard Bertrand Côte des Roses; there used to be a Fontanet Pays d'Oc Les
Terrasses white (Grenache Blanc, Colombard and Sav Blanc), and there still is
the Coté Mas Sud de France in a mixture of Grenache Blanc, Vermentino, Chardonnay
and Sauvignon Blanc, which is not as great as the Torres. And yes, so, along
with the Rose, there is also Vina Sol white of Grenache Blanc and Paradella.
Grenache Blanc comes primarily from Languedoc-Roussillon! I could live on this
grape, second, or first, only to Arneis ... or Pinot Blanc ... or Vermentino or
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that characterises the artisan/hand-made nature of Jilly wines. It's golden in
colour with passionfruit, honey and vanilla in the perfume and on the palate.
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biodynamic. It has sea salt in its perfume (I swear I can smell the sea in
Clunes, on the rare occasion) and nut on the palate. This is a light-spirited
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I know: we are now into the first month of winter! Drinking Verdelho is like
drinking autumnal leaves: changing colour to flutter/fall. Traditionally, the
Verdelho grape makes a textured wine of depth, something like a wooded
Chardonnay. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">When I talk about locabiber/local drinker, I should refer to the Northern
Rivers Zone which has one region, the Hastings River, Port Macquarie. That's
about 448 kms from Northern Rivers. But there are two other wine zones nearby.
The Northern Slopes zone also has only one region, New England, 285 kms from
us. Finally, there is the Granite Belt and South Burnett regions in the
Queensland zone, 222 kms and 459 kms respectively from us. So I could say that
when I drank a glass of Morgan and Gill's Verdelho in the Brisbane Playhouse
recently, I was drinking locally. The two winemakers use grapes from South
Burnett. They say on their website that this region 'has produced consistently
excellent Verdelho'. And this one is excellent in its smooth, gold colour and apple, pear and ginger perfume and deep palate. </span><br />
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Christmas 2018, and discovered that the one I drank is the 2017. It is
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colour, with apple, pear and ginger in its perfume and on its deep, textured, </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">mellifluousness. </span><span lang="EN" style="display: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hide: all;">palate. The back palate may be a little tart but comes through also with
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<br />Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-40537116488687901522018-02-23T16:29:00.003-08:002018-02-23T16:29:49.488-08:00Le Petite Mort Rosé
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red in colour, with a tinge of orange. It smells of smoky tomato with an orange
edge, maybe even with some aniseed. On the palate it is possibly jubie-ish
sweet, but not really. There is a sense of water, with further orange-tomato.
It is possibly very good with food, like … veal and pork. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-27381274576128164502018-02-23T16:19:00.002-08:002018-02-23T16:19:54.594-08:002016 Sirromet Vineyard Selection Granite Belt Pinot Gris<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The 2016 Sirromet Vineyard Selection Granite Belt Pinot Gris, although blood red in colour, smells of burnt Turkish delight or roses and tastes of dry butterscotch with pepper and possibly geranium. </span>Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-1755108569468484022017-12-03T15:53:00.005-08:002017-12-03T15:53:51.971-08:00Tweed prawns, The Bay Seafood and self-seeding tomatoes<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
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Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-5748154398351063642017-12-03T15:51:00.003-08:002017-12-03T15:51:37.515-08:00Palate's bouillabaisse at Eat the Street, Lismore<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">But I also slurped down a yummy one at <a href="https://www.visitnsw.com/destinations/north-coast/lismore-area/lismore/events/eat-the-street" target="_blank">Eat the Street Lismore</a> this year, from <a href="http://www.palateatthegallery.com/" target="_blank">Palate</a>, with prawns, fish, mussels and more, in a dense, aromatic, brown liquid. When I returned from France, I think I deliberately sought out fresh-water trout, although never making it with almonds. It’s a delicious fish, turning dusky pink when baked, and easy enough to get in Adelaide, but harder here on the North Coast. Our snapper, barramundi and whiting, however, are just-fine substitutes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-48441362122275868362017-12-03T15:50:00.000-08:002017-12-03T15:50:13.578-08:00Pears and mangoes<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Are pears and mangoes an unexpected combination? Though unexpected for me, it proved surprisingly apt. The mangoes highlighted the lemon taste of pears, and the pears the coconut taste of mangoes. Hence, the combo comes up with lemon coconut, that irresistible flavour of icing that makes deliciousness of a plain cake.<o:p></o:p></span>Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-76043039398772203492017-12-03T15:46:00.003-08:002017-12-03T15:46:59.721-08:002017 Sud de Frank
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The nomenclature, Sud de Frank, is a superb joke, playing on
South of France, referring to Provence, and more, for its famous Rosés,
prompting me to ask the question: is it possible to drink a bad Provence Rosé? And
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The label’s jokiness resonates more with me, because
Frank, a name that connotes a larrikin quality, was what and who my father,
Frank, was exactly. Frank paid for a commercially screen-printed t-shirt for
himself, with ‘Be Frank’ on the font and ‘I’m Frank’ on the back. That’s from a
story I wrote, which is another story. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The 2017 Sud De Frank Rosé (and I only know it’s 2017
because the single shop-, not bottle, label said so) is made from Sav Blanc and
Petit Manseng. Neither grape, nor, again, year, is mentioned on the label: most
annoying is what I say, although completely in keeping with European practices
where everyone knows where a particular grape variety is discretely, distinctly
grown. But not here in Australia, I want to say, not here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> In Australia,
practically every grape is grown practically everywhere, although not to its
best. Put the @#$$%^ year and the %$##@& grape on the label is what I say. And
why a Rosé, you might ask, with Petit Manseng and Sav Blanc – white grapes.
Frankly(!), I don’t understand/know. But the website for another wine I drank
from a local bottle shop, the 2017 Blind Corner Blanc, a combination of ‘white’
grapes – Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon, and a hint of Chenin – says ‘white wines
aren't actually white, unless someone has put peroxide in it or something’! I
don’t’ get it. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Long Point Vineyard Lake Cathie Midnight Rosé, from
winemaker Graeme Davies, is red-ruby velvet in colour, with a perfume of
toasted waffles, maple syrup and some rose. The palate is honey-ant. While
light at the end, it has good middle depth and texture. The label is v-shaped
to establish symbolically that long point, with a logo of L and P cleverly
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Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-32489664389437670332016-10-07T21:35:00.003-07:002016-10-07T21:35:18.081-07:002016 Jilly The White Wolf of Cumbria New England Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc and Gewurztraminer Rosé <div class="_1dwg _1w_m" style="padding: 12px 12px 0px;">
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Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-10215432473463585342016-08-22T04:48:00.001-07:002016-08-22T04:48:46.320-07:00Konpira Maru Wine Company Vermentino<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Konpira Maru Wine Company make a Vermentino, but the company is new to me. The website says 'Wines made in Melbourne, true to variety and the ground in which they're grown'. But the website does not tell you where 'Konpira Maru' comes from. The young men featured on the site, Sam Cook and Alastair Reid, are the winemakers, helped by our local Jared Dixon. Like most of Dixon's not-interfered-with white wines, the Konpira Maru V for Vermentino is a cloudy gold in colour, being unfiltered and unfined. Nuts, citrus and butter feature in the aroma, and the well-judged, mid-length palate is creamy with green apple. If I wanted to say what Vermentino is, this is it … as well as the Yalumba Vermentio. There's no year on the bottle, but the label is black, with grape in white and company in red. The detail of winemaking includes 'batonage', an old wine-making technique: stirring the wine-in-barrels with a baton. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Moya Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789642020526029185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6002080374463550952.post-55330609887871532992016-08-22T04:40:00.000-07:002016-08-22T04:40:07.186-07:002016 Jilly Field Blend
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As I write, I have just opened Jared Dixon's green-waxed and corked bottle of 2016
Jilly Field Blend the label of which features a greyscale, alert hare, the type
you see, like wallabies for example, sitting up, ears vertical, scanning and
ready to bound off in the opposite direction from what they are perceiving. The
list of grape varieties in this Field Blend is like the chants of the Catholic
liturgy for Easter: the reds being Nebbiolo, Shiraz, Tempranillo, Tannat,
Pinotage, Tinta Cao, Touriga, Barbera, and the whites being Gewurtzraminer, Chardonnay,
Viognier and Petit Manseng. Dixon took the grapes of the first rows of Mark
Kirkby's Topper's Mountain 'fruit-salad' vine plantings, which are usually
under attack from birds in the nearby bush. Dixon's hand-made wines are made
from what it to hand. He whole-bunch pressed and fermented with the abundant wild
yeast of New England and the Northern Rivers. The Field Blend's subtle, mixed
perfume is of calamine lotion, vanilla and orange peel. In colour, it's really
a deepish ruby-crimson, and that's because, despite those whites, many of the
reds are big red-wine grapes. Its palate is, not unexpectedly, surprising: at
the very end is the citrus of the whites; before that is, briefly, Turkish delight;
in the middle, some musk sticks; toward the end, some orange peel again; and at
the beginning is citrus, where the whites are very strong. So it is wine that
glides across borders. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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